Comments on: IDPs Are Sri Lankan Too

By: indi

indi — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:22:10 +0000

Er, freedom of movement isn’t a privilege, it’s a constitutional right.

If you detain people you kinda have to take care of them.

By: Jamal

Jamal — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:52:43 +0000

Why should they be given such special privileges when millions of Sinhalese and Muslims live without electricity or running water.

Tamils may cry the loudest, but that doesn’t mean their pain in the greatest.

By: Gun Gun

Gun Gun — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:05:11 +0000

Well said Akbar. My sentiments exactly!

By: M.Akbar

M.Akbar — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:58:18 +0000

You can say it’s for our good in the south because we’re scared they’re LTTE. That is a legitimate argument.

It is absolutely not a legitimate argument. What are you saying? That people are guilty until proven innocent? Is this the country we live in?

I don’t understand how anyone can justify this. The papers reported the MoD website as saying that certain lawyers who have a history of defending LTTE suspects are “traitors”. Don’t people have the right to a legal defence? Is an LTTE suspect guilty by definition? What if tomorrow Mahinda was accused of being an LTTE suspect? Would his lawyers be traitors too?

This country is going nowhere as the law is non-existent. Let’s ask ourselves if there would be the same indifference if this was happening to Sinhalese people…

By: Gini Appu

Gini Appu — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:11:37 +0000

It would’ve been so much more humane to nuke ‘em all.

By: Dee

Dee — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:15:18 +0000

Indi, Have u seen this article in The Times today?

By: ramanan

ramanan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:35:25 +0000

First of all, I don’t think Japanese people like being called Japs, the same way you might not like being called a Paki. Second, the US held Japanese people who may have been living in the US for years and years. People who were born in the US. US citizens. The comparison is all the more ridiculous since there really was no threat of some Japanese uprising in the US. It was all racism and stupidness. The lesson to be learned from all that isn’t the one you seem to have learned.

By: coconaut

coconaut — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:32:05 +0000

Have you considered the possibility of the following –

“People don’t blow themselves up just like that: they do so with a purpose. So far, that purpose was to bring about Tamil Eelam, which today is a lost cause. But wait a few months, let resentment in the camps fester, and the pro-LTTE diaspora may well be able to recruit suicide bombers from the camps, especially since, as the International Center for Strategic Defense reports, corruption is rife among those running them, and a bribe of Rs 1-3 lakhs can secure anyone’s release. This report warns that ‘Although the structures and the mechanisms of the LTTE were fully crushed, massive IDP Centers will be an ideal place to re-group and re-organize if there is the will and the need. In other words, this is ideal breeding grounds for LTTE ideology.’ The best way to counter this threat is freedom for the IDPs, which would immediately disperse a large number as well as win hearts and minds, and their speedy resettlement back in their homes.”

from http://www.groundviews.org/2009/07/07/setting-the-record-straight-challenges-of-internment-for-idps/

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Global Voices Online » IDPs Are Also Sri Lankan And Have Their Rights — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:31:22 +0000

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By: Ayla

Ayla — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:35:19 +0000

This is just the pirce of the war. Hopefully very last payments. This is why start of a war should be avoided at all costs . Or ratther the need for one.

By: Ayla

Ayla — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:33:01 +0000

Welcome to the truth James. Take off the pink glasses and see the truth. US held millions of Japs under house arrest and in camps during the 2nd world war. War and the aftermath needs to be contained and this is just one of the ways of containment. That is all there is to it.

By: AKC

AKC — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:10:59 +0000

Lèse majesté is a crime and so is false prophesy.

By: Coconut

Coconut — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:22:55 +0000

Per sri lankan Kings deffinition I dont think you can call AKC a Sri Lankan.
He does not sound as if he honestly loves Sri Lanka, because no one who loves a country would want it garrisoned.
So he is one of those traitors that stand in the way of a peacefuly united Sri Lanka.

By: James

James — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:15:21 +0000

@ AKC – You’re a stupid git and a shame to be called a Sri Lankan!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:43:15 +0000

Treat them with care. Rehabilitate them, develop the areas…with electricity and running water and give them a taste of good life so that they would not resort to having to smuggle in weapons all over again.

But if we let them out as it is…its only a matter of time before they go dig up and start doing hit and runs.

By: AKC

AKC — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:37:12 +0000

We can destroy the weapons dumps but what can we do with the supporters?

By: AKC

AKC — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:52:30 +0000

Well, LTTE has done a great service by clearing all the people from the Wanni which will ease the garrisoning. Once this is complete they will not lift their heads.

Only issue it has dumped the people in the government’s lap, which is not an expense that can be afforded. Recovering the cost of this from outsiders is the game that has to be played. Play hardball and get something, but only on our terms. Look to the examples of our true friends in Asia, they know how this game is to be played.

Bleeding heart NGO’s and the West will eventually cough up if we hold out long enough and these IDP’s are used to being held to ransom anyway. Besides they have a better life than under the LTTE, no?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:46:55 +0000

yeah….I heard there are like 50,000 Ltte supporters within these camps. And 100′s more of weapon dumps(in the woods etc). So if you let all of them out at once, it will only be a matter of time, before those guys get activated and start blasting stuff to bits.

So I think a lil bit of more patience would be needed, till the mines are cleared and weapon dumps are destroyed.